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At the peak of his success, Chandler was a Hollywood player in his own right — his screenplays for the 1945 noir masterpiece “Double Indemnity,” directed by Billy Wilder, and 1947’s “The Blue Dahlia,” not-as-masterfully directed by George Marshall, both earned him Academy Award nominations — but he was distrustful of the one-upmanship at the heart of the studio system: It made no room for writing talent to thrive.

Kenny Leon’s still-running Broadway revival of “Our Town,” an inclusive 21st century American reboot of Thornton Wilder’s classic, was the most healing drama I saw all year.

Starring Paul Mescal as Lucius, a young prisoner turned gladiator, this sequel goes bigger and wilder than its predecessor, including monkeys, rhinos and even sharks within its grand action sequences.

There’s a good chance that MicroStrategy, which trades like Bitcoin’s wilder cousin, is hiding in your retirement account.

On a lighter note, there’s the odd-couple comedy “Between the Temples,” the nonagenarian-grandma caper “Thelma” and the documentary about Jewish comic actor “Remembering Gene Wilder.”